Animal trait ontology: The importance and usefulness of a unified trait vocabulary for animal species

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1485-1491

  Hughes, L M ^a   Bao, J ^b   Hu, Z L ^a   Honavar, V ^b   Reecy, J M ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal; Cattle; Chicken; Ontology; Phenotype; Trait

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CATTLE; CHICKEN; FEMALE; GENOMICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; CATTLE; CHICKENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENOMICS; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

ANIMALIA; BOS; RATTUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 45549094918     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2008-0930     Document Type: Article

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